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TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 97th TRB Annual Meeting, January 7–11, 2018, in Washington, D.C., and for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). For papers on Transportation History, the TRB History Committee welcomes papers on any aspect of transportation history,…

Lincoln Drive in Philadelphia, PA is barely over 4 miles long from south to north, but its design, alignment, and construction shed light on over two hundred years of the economic, natural, and social histories of the city. This recently published article (an entry in the online Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, produced by the Mid-Atlantic…

There’s a new article in Transport Policy on “What led to the establishment of a rail-oriented city? Determinants of urban rail supply in Tokyo, Japan, 1950–2010,” by Ryosuke Abe and Hironori Kato (Vol. 58, August 2017, Pages 72–79). Abstract: This study analyzed the determinants of urban rail supply in Tokyo using time series data for…

This post highlights beautiful black and white photography from the 1980s that documents some of the declining heavy industry along the Delaware River in the city of Philadelphia. The post is short on explanation because that’s not what it’s intended for. But the gorgeous images raise lots of interesting questions about the connection between marine…

Check out a new project that launched on Kickstarter in April, historian and bicycle advocate Carlton Reid is proposing to locate and, if needed, excavate miles of old cycleways, and to connect them to the current bicycle network. Also, check out Reid’s new book: Bike Boom. From Reid: “What you get from official bodies and…

Two committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Sciences — the Transportation History and Bicycle Transportation committees — have just issued a Call for Papers for the 2018 Annual Meeting (to be held January 7 to 11 in Washington, DC). The topic is the History of Bicycle Transportation and Planning…